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Algebra, the Ultimate Maths Roadblock
Algebra is one of the most difficult concepts for students to understand. Although it seems like such a natural idea once someone is a skilled mathematician, it is something which our tutors find causes more problems than most others.
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Busting Myths on University Tuition Fees
Are university tuition fees worth the debt that students are left with once they graduate? The government are launching a review into this, and these are some of the myths surrounding tuition fees.
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Parents Evening and Tutee Reviewing: a small handbook
Here is a small list of hints and tips to help you through your parents evening, which in some schools start at this midpoint in the year, especially if its your first. Many of these tips can be interpreted for use in tutees reviews, and it may be interesting for parents to read if only so they can understand what it is that they can and cannot ask at such events.
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Oxbridge Uproar over Colonialism Debate
A closer look at the recent drama unfolding in Oxford concerning one professors apparently pro-colonialist comments published in a national newspaper. How he was influenced by a largely discredited American academic and how the university staff and students have turned against him in an open letter.
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Identifying and working with shy students.
A consideration into the different personality types to be found in the average classroom, an introductory explanation and helpful tips into how to look after and help shy an introverted students to flourish in the classroom environment, which is not naturally a safe and comfortable space for them.
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Brexit and Academic Unity.
A look into how a top UK university is combatting the inevitable academic loose ends that will come from the ongoing Brexit departure from the EU, how it came about, how it will benefit us and how we might use it as an example for the furtherance of other academic disciplines moving froward as a country parted from the EU.
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Choosing whats right for your child: Finding a Primary thats right for you.
A close look into how schools present themselves to prospective parents, and some ideas as to how prospective parents can begin the often fraught process of choosing a school for their child, including quotes from prominent members of Head Teacher and Teacher communities.
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Creative Excellence, Social Mobility and the future of Education
A review of recent discussions about funding for schools, changes to the curriculum and an assessment of the future impacts of these decisions. This article looks at how the UK is already starting to suffer from a funding imbalance between schools geographically, and considers the major impacts of a continued neglect of creative subjects in schools compared to the inevitable benefits of taking mitigatory measures.
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Turning up the Heat on classroom regulations
A look into the recent studies and responses to classroom environments, specifically how temperate can affect learning and the notion of new maximum temperatures requested by Scottish schools to match the already widespread minimum temperatures. Also an exploration of the varied responses to such proposals.
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